State Farm doesn’t want me to be in business in California.

Ask me how I know.

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Litterally a scientist working with NASA data and it’s scientists and I’m not the intended audience?

I’ve been in the remote sensing game almost 25 years. And a good amount of that at the federal government. I’ve sat at the table and shared beers and dinner with the chief scientists behind the modis and gedi mission. There isn’t a geospatial data type or format I haven’t encountered, and half of them I’ve buried.

So please, spare this old hand any lectures.

The fact is geospatial has been able to explode because we finally got away from these kinds of anachronistic approaches to data. It’s litterally never been a better time to be a geospatial data scientist. Praise be that the age of h5s and local processing is over.

Yeah. h5 is the typical industry shorthand and file extension.

The h5 saga was NASA saying “we’re going to create a file format that does EVERTHING”, and well… it does… poorly.

Everything that h5 is allegedly better for is better solved by just moving to either sql or postgres. And if the data aren’t that complex, then just send me a geotiff.

If you send me an h5 the first thing I’m doing is moving it over to sqlite or postgres.

geotiff

fucking fight me.

and if any one posts h5 as their favorite I’ll rip your fingernails off with a pliers.

to go

huh

Its self defense to stop ICE.

Why would you do this when you could just as easily have them listen to WeFunk! Radio, the funkiest internet radio around, for free?

Because America isn’t a nation, so much as an idea.

And Trump recognizes that he’s in control of what that idea can become. Democrats have, at least in recent history, represented an utterly incapable and worthless challenge to that vision. The “centrists”, if you can even call them that, capitulated entirely to Trump-ism in the period of 2020-2024. They aren’t a challenge to Trumpism.

Mamdani is giving voters an alternative vision of what the future can be, and that is the most threatening thing to both Trump and the management class of the DNC.

This is about controlling the narrative, and Mamdani shows what we progressives have always been saying: Put the policies on the table and the voters will vote for them. The things Mamdani is running on are wildly popular; some of the most popular policies that exist. And they break corporate control over our politics, something that hasn’t happens in the US in almost 60 years since the implementation of the southern strategy.

The war Trump is waging against the citizens of the US is no different that than why Putin invaded Ukraine: They are working to redefine the identity of a nation.

Mark my words, Trump will kidnap and murder Mamdani before he cedes control of the narrative which he believes is his own.

I literally told you that I agree with your point.

AND how you are approaching this is walking into a trap. Its a bait.

Geneva, we’ve literally never disagreed on anything.

I’m advising checking in on yourself on what you are doing right now.

Its literally listed in the “antisemitic tropes” section of wikipedia.

You are conflating Zionism and Antisemitism.

I’m not conflating anything, and you are stepping out onto rotten ice.

The steam deck controller addresses all of these issues. I was literally an anti-controller (wasd gang) zealot and the steam deck controller converted me because I can literally play city skylines in bed now…